Imalittleteapot
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:52 PM
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Whatever happened to the Bird Flu? |
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Haven't heard anything about it lately. Did it just go away? Was it just another hyped up issue to scare the bejeezus out of us?
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:57 PM
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1. We do have cases of West Nile flu in my county. Several |
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horses have contacted it and now one human. I dunno about the Avian flu but weren't they both hyped at the same time?
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:57 PM
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2. It stopped testing highly in Karl Rove's focus groups |
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:57 PM
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3. That little bit of fear mongering didn't do well in test marketing. |
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:59 PM
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4. Rummy must have sold his stock in Tamiflu |
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rendering it useless as a scare tactic. Just wait til they figure out a bigger, better drug (that they have stock in) to fight it. It will be back on the front pages.:)
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:03 PM
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:59 PM
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5. Don't worry they have it on the back burner |
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Wed Aug-30-06 09:59 PM
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6. That's scheduled for Columbus Day.... |
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:evilgrin:
My god I hope I'm wrong. :scared:
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:00 PM
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I know a lot of folks in the poultry biz and they saw it as a laffer.
As weird as it sounds, I believe that it was a trial balloon trying to set the stage for a Universal Poultry Unit, courtesy of Monsanto and Pilgrim.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:16 PM
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13. nothing would surprise me at this point |
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:42 PM
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Poultry is the universal foodstock. Look at what they have already done with GM swine and the laws that have been passed supporting same. But pork doesn't sell well in all too many demographics. They were well on the way to demolishing poultry stocks in the 3rd World when the car ran out of gas. The logistics of the wholesale slaughter was a huge obstacle, but they will figure that one out.
The Universal Chicken
It will be back next year.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:01 PM
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8. I heard a health report on preventing the spread of typical flu |
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strains on my local NPR this morning. It was good information and H5N1 was mentioned briefly. The doctor said that those who can take a flu shot should if at all possible. Preventing the flu in yourself may limit the ability of a flu strain to interact with an exposure to H5N1 and causing a mutation that would allow H5N1 to start infecting person to person. Seemed reasonable to me.
Aside from that, it was all about handwashing, staying home if ill, etc.
I haven't heard anything about transmission of H5N1 from person to person yet.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:02 PM
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9. Flu Always Wanes In Summertime |
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The fear is not just hype, although the CMSM has hyped the fear when it is not really anything to fear YET
if this H5 N1 ever becomes human to human, be very sure it will be something to fear.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:05 PM
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12. Nothing has changed really... |
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It recedes in summertime, it hasn't mutated into an easily transmittable form.
There have been a couple studies to indicate it may have more trouble mutating than was feared.
And there have been two successful vaccine tests at low dosage.
Indonesia is still the hotspot.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:41 PM
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nothing has changed
it could
but it might not ever
someday there will be a pandemic of some sort, statistical probability says it will happen.
just as there will be objects from space that hit the planet as there have been in the past.
and on and on.
we don't have to live in fear, but I for one want my government to be looking for ways to deal with possible threats
but I don't want them telling me to live in fear, or worse, making threats out to be more than they are
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:19 PM
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Unfortunately, the attention span of the average American makes H5N1 a non-issue in the summer.
We'll have to see what it does this fall.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:03 PM
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10. The same thing that happened to the Anthrax investigation and |
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the Hunt for Osama, and the 911 comission where the heads of state would no testify under oath, same thing that happened to the "Downibg Street memo's" (are you detecting a pattern here?". I could go on and on and on, however, for a more direct answer to your question, I suggest you spend an evening waching V for Vendetta.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:17 PM
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14. they packed that one up and put in back in their trunk of magic tricks |
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along with anthrax, Risen, Sarin and SARS.
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:24 PM
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16. It mutated into a strain of the Ramsey/Kerr virus... should be |
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a whole new strain by tommorow....
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Wed Aug-30-06 10:29 PM
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17. Going to Thailand, went to travel medicine specialist...she laughed at BF |
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I got shots for hepatitis, I have a stack of malaria scrips, I got all sorts of advice about how to avoid getting sick. She got to BIRD FLU on the list and just chuckled. "Some people are concerned about it, so we do like to mention it. You are not a bird, so you won't have any problems." That pretty much sums it up for me.
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Wed Aug-30-06 11:08 PM
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19. The pharmaceuticals made a bundle (Rummy's connected) |
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and overall, most people have too much to be afraid of already.. Bird flu never struck a chord.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:44 PM
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21. It got eaten by sharks and murdered by Gary Condit. |
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Actually, it's still a real threat, but the hype's flown the coop.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:44 PM
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22. it mutated farther away |
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should have bookmarked the article but apparently it has now mutated into a form that is highly unlikely to mutate into a form easily transmitted human to human
it is a risk to the poultry industry, not to the rest of us
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:44 PM
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23. Still there, still infecting birds and an occasional human. |
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I would never make light of it because the possibility of a pandemic in the next several years is still real. However I will say that yes, just like everything else, our government politicized avian flu and used it as a scare tactic.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:47 PM
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24. So far, it is not as infective as feared |
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If it mutates, watch out. Right now, you pretty much have to sleep with a bunch of chickens 24/7 to get it to jump species. But if it mutates to easy human-to-human infection, it could still be disastrous. However, we now have better medications for it, so it is unlikely to be the global killer it would have been two years ago.
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Thu Aug-31-06 04:53 PM
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summer migration of some sorts.
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